"It isn't a Ceasar shift, an atbash, a vigenere with keywords KEY or MAP or NORTH SOUTH EAST WEST or LEGEND. It doesn't have an even number of characters, so playfair and polybius are out. It's not a typing keyboard shift,

It looks close to a railfence or transposition cipher, although the lack of the letter E is strange. Anagramming seems weird. I do see the letters for MAP in there, possibly just a rearranging might do the trick.

I'm trying to make that word psaaml spell PUZZLE, which would be a shift of 0, +2, -1, -1, -1, -7...but why would these numbers be significant..."

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I'd remark on these attempts, but I fear that I'd provide too many clues.

Best decoder? Nay nay. In my humble opinion I am neither good nor bad. What I do is take a pot shot and pray to that divine essence I may have struck lucky. 'How a peach will bruise if not handled gently'.

Best decoder? Nay nay. In my humble opinion I am neither good nor bad. What I do is take a pot shot and pray to that divine essence I may have struck lucky. 'How a peach will bruise if not handled gently'.

Okay, but who IS 'good'...?

I mean the heading above this thread is "User Puzzles and Contests"...